Some Questions on Architecture This Course Will Hope to Answer
1. What is architecture? What is the ontology of architecture, and the architecture of ontology? The integral fantasy of architecture, the integral architecture of fantasy? What is the atom of architecture? The zero of architecture - upon what ground exactly does architecture stand? Is it even possible to speak of a singular architecture - is it not clearly the case that architecture is plural, that it is truth architectures? Or is this understanding a withdrawal already?
2. What dimension of time does architecture exist in, to what degree is architecture in a state of becoming? At one certain time an architecture was built - is this the corrrect understanding of how architecture constructs and sustains itself through a continuum? Static, solid, within the frame of a freeze? Or is it more like a text, swimming like a fish through a significant sea?
3. Is there a distinction, pace socialism before the fall of the Berlin wall, between architecture, and actually-existing architecture, and if so what might be this distinction? Furthermore what was the architecture of the Berlin wall anyway - did they built the wall, or did the wall build itself? Is architecture like sex, always-already embedded in attendent holistic processes of sexualistion, such that it is finally impossible to speak of discrete sexual acts, or is architecture rather monumental and priapic - somebody, the socius, erecting a substitute cock?
4. Is there gender in architecture? An architecture of gender? Masculine/feminine - since performance must be involved. From desire to drive - and could there be a queer architecture? Do we really want there to be?
5. What is the experimental in architecture really experiments in? Experiments with no control, under control, in control. What is the relation between architecture and utopia? What exactly is the architecture of no place at all?
2. What dimension of time does architecture exist in, to what degree is architecture in a state of becoming? At one certain time an architecture was built - is this the corrrect understanding of how architecture constructs and sustains itself through a continuum? Static, solid, within the frame of a freeze? Or is it more like a text, swimming like a fish through a significant sea?
3. Is there a distinction, pace socialism before the fall of the Berlin wall, between architecture, and actually-existing architecture, and if so what might be this distinction? Furthermore what was the architecture of the Berlin wall anyway - did they built the wall, or did the wall build itself? Is architecture like sex, always-already embedded in attendent holistic processes of sexualistion, such that it is finally impossible to speak of discrete sexual acts, or is architecture rather monumental and priapic - somebody, the socius, erecting a substitute cock?
4. Is there gender in architecture? An architecture of gender? Masculine/feminine - since performance must be involved. From desire to drive - and could there be a queer architecture? Do we really want there to be?
5. What is the experimental in architecture really experiments in? Experiments with no control, under control, in control. What is the relation between architecture and utopia? What exactly is the architecture of no place at all?
1 Comments:
is there a simian architecture?
'The art department for Planet of the Apes painstakingly designed the physical setting of the ape culture with simian architecture, wardrobe and utensils.'
Glad you're on an architecture tip - am planning to go to the Barbican soon to see that utopias gig.
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